“To be ho, I don’t know.” Marcus shrugged then looked at Kevin and Keryn: “You? Do you have a pn?”

  “No, not really. ” Keryn shrugged as well.

  “Then you’ve gotta figure it out soon.” Luo Zhuge let out a very long sigh and shook his head, looking disappointed and tired: “You should know. When they have their eyes on you, they won't stop until they firm - or they believe you’re dead.”

  “They’ll e for us like that?” Mararrowed his eyes.

  “Well I’m kinda surprised they haven’t done so earlier.” Luo Zhuge chuckled: “After what I’ve had - never mind. The thing is they’re likely to do so now. If they are so brazen as to attack your prect, then they are willing to do much worse.”

  The room fell silent for a moment.

  “So - I guess, we have a deal?” Luo Zhuge rubbed his legs before heading towards the door: “When you move against them - and I hope - I trust that you will, I will be receiving your message.”

  “But how do we tact you?” Kevin asked.

  “Oh, I almost fot.” Luo Zhuge threw a small wooden pque at Marcus. Marcus caught it with his one hand: “When you’re ready to move. Break this. Be careful with it. If you’re not careful, or you’re trying to fool me somehow. Things will get really ugly for all of us. I hope you uand that. Deal?”

  “... deal.” Marcus sighed. The moment his words dropped. Something tingled his senses, as if an invisible line of energy had ed around his left wrist. He looked Luo Zhuge in the eye: “What the fuck is this?”

  “Being Carriers of Notes has its bes.” Luo Zhuge grinned: “Don’t worry, it’s just a trag spell lio that pque, not that dissimir to the one I used to find you here. It won’t bring you any harm. In fact, you break the pque, or you break this ‘ribboher way I’ll know you moved.”

  Marcus took a look at Kevin and Keryn, Keryn was looking at her and Kevin’s left wrists - she felt it too.

  “Before you leave, I would like you to tell me ohing.” Marcus sighed and said when Luo Zhuge had his hand on the door’s handle. “I don’t think it’ll be a trade, as it’s mutually beneficial for us.”

  “Oh? What is that?”

  “If we are to move on them. IF - we are to strike them where it hurts. ” Marcus’ voice was calm but it made Kevin and Keryn both stiffen up slightly: “How do we find them? How do we know where to hit? We will only have one opportunity.”

  “Northern District.” Luo Zhuge shrugged: “I suggest you do some ret before you go. Because for sure the pce would be heavily guarded. And - just like you would expect, the pce would be energy dense.”

  “Energy dense? So - some kind of power pnt? That’s not - we don’t have power pnts in the Northern District, they’re only on the borders between districts - ” Keryn scratched his jaw.

  “Well, that’s not my problem now, is it?” Luo Zhuge shrugged: “You figure it out. And tell me when you’re about to act. ” He twisted the door handle, but turned baore time before he ope: “I know you don’t trust me. I wouldn’t, and hell, I have a ton of doubt about you, how prepared you are and your iy as well. But Let me just reiterate this, without any iion to vince you, or threaten you, that your timing and your a and will decide the fate of at least a few people, not just me.”

  “I have one more question!” Kevin raised his hand and called out.

  “What!?” Luo Zhuge almost bolted out the door already.

  “Do you know anything about Blood Rainbows? Or - how to detect, or avoid them?” Kevin threw this question out without aation.

  “Not more than what you already do. Just hide when you see it, and be careful at night. ” Luo Zhuge opehe door and stepped out. Yet before he closed the door, his voice came through the gap: “Just pay attention to the temperature and street lights.”

  “Okay, I think we’re gonna need a new pce to stay.” Marcus immediately said: “DO you know any?”

  “Shit, Marcus, let’s take a break first.” Keryn sighed and shook her head: “You look tired. Just take a moment.”

  “No - no, we ’t trust him.” Marcus paced in the living room: “I know - I know he gave us the really important intelligence. But since he’s out of his hiding pce, that means those after him would probably find his traces as well.”

  “Yes. But take a moment. ” Keryn came over and pulled Marcus down on a sofa: “I’ll tell you what, we will keep an eye on the surroundings, you take a moment. Meditate, take a nap, eat, whatever you do. Then we will tact Captain Ko and tell him we’ll search for a new pce to hide. You see, we don’t know any other pce to hide. This pce is the st of the captain’s. So to find another - easier said than done.”

  “Plus, if he’s really Alex Pearson, then I really doubt he would be that careless.” Kevin sighed and sat down on the floor, rubbing his temples: “We’ve been at this for what, a few months? He’s been hiding for years, decades, almost.”

  “So this - Alex Pearson, Luo Zhuge, what have you found out about him?” Marcus yawned before he leaned ba the sofa.